Sunday 26 May 2013
Peter Sheridan, a former PSNI assistant chief constable, claims that if cigarettes were sold in plain packs, it would amount to a "smuggler's charter" (News, September 26). In fact, existing packs are already easy to forge.
To combat this, covert markings are put on packs to help enforcement officials. These covert markings will remain.
Removing the branding won't eliminate smoking, but it will give millions one less reason to start.
ROBIN HEWINGS
Cancer Research UK
Three-day festival underway in Derry
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Comedy with big following means blockbuster
The boat used to take people to the ill-fated Titanic is set to welcome passengers on board again after a £7 million refurbishment that took seven years to complete.
America's transport safety watchdog has warned that the Washington state bridge collapse is a wake-up call for the country.
Veteran director Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinising" effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is "idiotic", in comments made at the Cannes Film Festival.
When Rob Webber was forced to undergo a second shoulder operation last summer and went through "dark days" wondering what the future held, he never envisaged it would be captaining his country.
Arjen Robben provided the perfect answer to the doubters by scoring an 88th-minute winner to settle a brilliant Champions League final in favour of Bayern Munich at Wembley.
Leinster put past disappointments behind them to scoop an elusive RaboDirect PRO12 title in head coach Joe Schmidt's last game in charge, with a 24-18 win over Ulster.
Investigators are looking into claims made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged after allegedly throwing a marijuana bong out of the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.
Matthew Wright has revealed his best ever interview led to sitting next to Elizabeth Taylor at the Baftas.
Kevin Jonas has confessed he's pleased to be able to watch back arguments with his wife Danielle Deleasa on their reality TV series Married To Jonas.
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